THE NIGHTSHIFTERS - better late than never!

Excellent job you guys! You keep doing this calibur of work you'll be shooting on 35mm in no time, unless you already are. It's great that you and your brother share the same passion. Do you guys have your own specialties? Have you shot any other projects? Alessio did a great job DPing.

-Kevin
 
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That was an excellent film, very convincing effects and great acting. I liked it a lot!
 
wow, first short film!!!, wow!...I think the writing isnt there to be honest, I mean it wsant bad and it was very short so its hard to get alot in but enn. But visually it was stunning, very very imporessive. keep making films, the maya work was very impressive please tell me you didnt just learn maya? haha thats some really impressive stuff.
 
Thanks for your feedback and responses guys :D

You're right, the script could have been alot better, the initial story had so much more to it in terms of characterisation and explination to the events taking place. But we couldn't really fit it in due to time and duration limits.

I wrote the script and storyboarded it on the train on the way to the shoot which was complete madness at the time! :)

I'll post some behind the scenes images of the FX shots I worked on and I'll get Richard to do the same.
I work in the games industry making characters for Playstation titles, but this is my first experience with CG FX which is very different to what I do at work.

Ok, will post more stuff when I get home tonight.

Cheers

Ed
 
MalcolmOng said:
Omg i loved it! Great lighting and camerawork. I especially loved how you lit the vampires. Care to share your setups and lighting kit? Behind the scenes pics would be welcome!
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Thanks!

I borrowed a couple of Arri 1k lamps and some gels from a production company I sometimes work with.

My DOP really took care of the lighting for the first part of the underground car park scene. The two guards scene and all the wolf scenes were basically me moving a couple of photography lights around until I lit something.

Really didn't have a clue what I ws doing, I just tried to match the kind of lighting my DOP set up.

What I did learn is how incredibly important a good lighting set-up is. It really does make the difference between the movie look and video.

One more tip, I did actually create a lot of lighting in after effects using masks and adjusting the brightness and contrast. This was a great way to create a mood when I didn't have it in camera. An example of this can be seen in the close up shot of the guard looking up at the camera with yellow wolf eyes.

I'll post some behind the scenes as soon as I can.

Richard
 
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Yep, i did notice some AE lighting, very cool way to set the mood, especially on the last vampire, looked like a projector light ;)
Can`t wait for the additional info and pics.
 
Kevin Briggs said:
Excellent job you guys! You keep doing this calibur of work you'll be shooting on 35mm in no time, unless you already are. It's great that you and your brother share the same passion. Do you guys have your own specialties? Have you shot any other projects? Alessio did a great job DPing.

-Kevin
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Wow Kevin, thats a huge compliment and very encouraging thank you.

This was the first movie we've put together so no 35mm projects just yet , the DVX will do just fine for now. :)

As for specialities, my brother is an excellent 3d modeler, the wolf stuff really blew me away, I had no idea he could do this, in fact I suspect he's a little surprised himself!

I don't know if I have a specialities just yet as I've only done this one project. I've been a bit of a jack of all trades on this film. I guess on this project I've been good at problem solving and working out how to achieve visually what we both had in our heads.

Richard
 
Yeah, really nice little movie. It was like Underworld - except, you know, it didn't suck.

I really wish you'd made it to the horror fest. You guys would have placed very well, I think. And that would have been a kick-ass movie to screen at the NYC Screening.

Great work.
 
Wow.

If that is your first short film and you were winging-it for a lot of elements, then I may as well give up. :)

Story issue and a few minor polish problems aside....that was just plain BRILLIANT!!!!

Thanks for sharing. I can't wait to get more info.

You guys should put together a DVD with as much behind the scenes info as you can for those of us that would like to learn how things like this might be accomplished on the desktop. If you do I'll buy at least a few to give out to filmmaking friends. :)
 
brilliant. you would have won horrorfest, or at least you should have.
Where abouts in the UK are you based?
 
Hey everyone!
There`s something i wanted to share with you all....so i showed Zenon`s movie to my friends tonight, i was like - hey, you have to check this out, it`s this amazing horror flick a guy on dvxuser did.
I know how hard it is to create something looking sooooo close to film and i thought that "regular people" might appreciate that too. Well they kinda did, they said it was "OK!"..., but then again i thought well, they probably don`t know a thing about DVX and 35mm adapters and all the other stuff we are talking about here. So i asked them - ok, apart from scenario, acting and what not, i asked them - well, did it at least look like film to you? And everyone agreed that it did totally looked like 35mm film, the ones they see on TV everyday.
And that is a huge accomplishment for us all (well i think so) :)
Cheers!
 
jamesh said:
brilliant. you would have won horrorfest, or at least you should have.
Where abouts in the UK are you based?
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Hey Jamesh,

cheers, well I could have done with the HVX lol, but the DVX is still an amazing and simple piece of kit.

My brother and me are based in essex but we both work in central london.

Really love working in town, all the most amazing locations to shoot tape are on your doorstep!
 
Cipa said:
Hey everyone!
There`s something i wanted to share with you all....so i showed Zenon`s movie to my friends tonight, i was like - hey, you have to check this out, it`s this amazing horror flick a guy on dvxuser did.
I know how hard it is to create something looking sooooo close to film and i thought that "regular people" might appreciate that too. Well they kinda did, they said it was "OK!"..., but then again i thought well, they probably don`t know a thing about DVX and 35mm adapters and all the other stuff we are talking about here. So i asked them - ok, apart from scenario, acting and what not, i asked them - well, did it at least look like film to you? And everyone agreed that it did totally looked like 35mm film, the ones they see on TV everyday.
And that is a huge accomplishment for us all (well i think so) :)
Cheers!
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Hey Cipa,

well I think it's hard showing short films to friends as they can't really appreciate what goes into a small independent low or no budget production.

Really happy they thought it was 35mm, it comes down to a combination of composition, lighting, cc and a little help from the mini adaptor :)

Richard
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Yes, totally, i`m really happy they did though :)
Behind the scene photos?? :) DVX settings?? :)
 
Cipa said:
Yes, totally, i`m really happy they did though :)
Behind the scene photos?? :) DVX settings?? :)
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ok,ok!:)

Well here are my settings for starters. Remember I was shooting in an underground car park which has florescent lighting.

Detail Level: -2
V Detail Level: -3
Detail Coring: 0
Chroma Level: -7
Chroma Phase: +6
Colour Temp: +3
Master Ped: -15
A.Iris Level: -3
Gamma: High
Knee: Auto
Matrix: Cine-Like
Skin Tone: Off
V Detail Freq: Thick
Progressive: 25P

Aspect Conv: Squeeze

Hope this helps.

Richard

behind the scenes to follow...
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i was just wondering, why would you go for crashed blacks, when it`s so dark in an underground car park?
 
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